laji — meaning in English
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English meaning
- discipline noun The practice of training yourself or others to follow rules and control behaviour.
- domain noun A field or area of activity, knowledge, or control.
- genre noun A category of artistic work, especially literature, music, or film, defined by a shared style or subject matter.
- kind noun A type or category of thing that shares common features with others.
- sort noun A particular type or kind of something.
- species noun A group of living things that can breed with one another and produce fertile offspring; the basic unit of biological classification.
- specific adj Clearly defined or particular, rather than general or vague.
- type noun A category or class of things that share particular features.
- variety noun A deviation or difference.
Senses
laji is used for these senses in English:
- discipline A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.
- domain A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
- genre A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
- kind (type theory) The type of a type constructor or a higher-order type operator.
- specific (bioscience, taxonomy) Pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
- specific (physics) A measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air).
- type A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
- variety (algebraic geometry) Ellipsis of algebraic variety (“the set of solutions of a given system of polynomial equations over the real or complex numbers; any of certain generalisations of such a set that preserves the geometric intuition implicit in the original definition”).
discipline — full definition
- noun The practice of training yourself or others to follow rules and control behaviour.
- noun A particular branch of knowledge or study.
- verb To train someone to behave in a controlled way, or to punish them for breaking rules.
domain — full definition
- noun A field or area of activity, knowledge, or control.
- noun A territory owned or ruled by one person, group, or organization.
- noun A website address (or the underlying registered name) used to identify it on the internet.